Sunrizer synth: Still great, would love inter app audio Review

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Shortcut to great sounds, esp. Roland & CS-80Works fine on iPad 2 with current OS. I have tried most of the synth apps that are currently available for iOS. This is the one I end up using on almost every track. I've thought about why, and it comes down to two things: sound quality and interface. Sunrizer sounds expensive and it fits most of its controls on one screen, so that you can see what a patch is doing and how the elements fit together. It's an app that rewards and encourages tweaking, and the result is I've made more patches for this synth than any other.
There are already a lot of enthusiastic reviews for this app, but let me mention one feature that's easily overlooked. We're used to the modulation wheel controlling one or two parameters at a time (usually a filter). With Sunrizer, the modulation wheel can move smoothly between a whole group of parameters (called "morph groups"): not just filter frequencies, but LFO depth and frequency, oscillator detuning -- just about anything that's a knob. For example, let's say you want to make the end of a phrase more emphatic. With the morph groups feature, you can increase the filter resonance AND widen the pad AND slow down the vibrato AND make the vibrato more intense, all with one motion. It's very easy to set up and, in performance, opens up a highway for expressiveness.
New features are added, but the interface can still fit on one page. This makes Sunrizer one of the easiest synth apps to program and learn from.
For Vangelis-style patches, be sure to download the web bank titled "CFA Vintage Electronica Virtual Analogue" by Constantin Aliferis. Sunrizer looks like a Roland, but can also do a convincing CS-80. The default "Blade Runner" patch is one of the best I've heard on any platform. It can also do the Twin Peaks pad from "Laura Palmer's Theme."